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Neela Aasmaan...

It is a kind of solution when I say I want to move on. The funny part is that I realize that I am the problem.
Yesterday I saw a wonderful piece of videography by IITK juniors. I always thought of how I could make a movie about how classes start in the morning.. the various kind of approaches that people take.. the early risers, the moderates and the lasts...
Funnily I never got the drive to do it. Now I think, if somebody had asked me what IITK gave to me, I would have brushed them off. Probably the only advice I would have for them would have been
1. Make your own original mistakes and do not follow any path laid out for you..
2. Never lose you originality and creativity, save them, support them and be alive always.

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